Flourish Award

What is Flourish Award

The Flourish Award was established in 2009 by West Yorkshire Print Workshop to champion and showcase excellence in printmaking across Yorkshire. The award now provides artists and printmakers from across the UK with the opportunity to exhibit their work in a group exhibition at the WYPW Gallery. The winner of the award goes on to present their own solo print exhibition at Huddersfield Art Gallery in 2018. The winner also benefit from a two-week residency at WYPW.

Prizes

During the exhibition our panel of judges will select the winning printmaker - the Flourish Award Winner. In addition there are runners-up prizes, including our student/recent graduate award, of vouchers and materials kindly given by our sponsors:

Flourish exhibition at Huddersfield Art Gallery

Winner of Flourish 2016 and the Intaglio Printmaker Prize, Amy-Jane Blackhall, will present her exhibition at Huddersfield Art Gallery in October 2017.

Amy-Jane's work emerges from her fascination with the concept of interconnectedness, through the physical and spiritual act of making, particularly the repetitive nature of print.

Underlying structures are central to Amy-Jane's imagery; derived from sacred places, she frequently references archetypal symbols, Oriental art and Eastern ideologies. Recurring themes in her work reflect on how the universality has a strong aesthetic appeal transcending space and time, language and culture.